arabic movies scrapper

SomeoneCares · 2012-09-01 00:13

hello all,
I am looking for a scraper that can get metadata from http://www.elcinema.com/
I wish if I have enough development background to build it I would have built it long time ago .. unfortunately I do not have it Smile

can someone help me in this? there is no single scraper that serves Arabic media
thanks in advance

SomeoneCares · 2012-09-04 00:50

am I posting to the wrong forum section ? should I move the request to other place ?

**olympia** · 2012-09-04 14:58

No, it's ok to be here. Seems like noone is interested and/or have the time to develop a scraper for this site.

SomeoneCares · 2012-09-04 21:24

thanx for ur reply Smile

bhefny · 2012-09-08 00:12

There is no scpecific tool to crap a website in particular
I think a custom scrapper should be written
What exactly do you want to scrap ?

SomeoneCares · 2012-09-11 02:50

hello bhefny, thanks for responding to me Smile

I am not sure if u r an Arabic speaker or not, but if you are please visit http://www.elcinema.com/ , this is a typical movie database service like IMDB and TMDB but for Arabic movies and written in Arabic, and the other difference is that they do not expose any APIs or web service to integrate with
what I want to scrap, well .. anything I can Smile

plots, movie crew, actors and actresses, posters and backgrounds, well .. normal staff that other scrappers get from IMDB or TMDB
what do u think ? Smile

hadynz · 2012-09-13 12:22

@SomeoneCares; I am currently the author of the Arabic XBMC repository (https://github.com/hadynz/repository.ara...mc-addons) and am able to write scrapers with ease. I saw your thread and had a look at elcinema.com. Like you just said, they don't really have any media... just meta data. Not sure what you would like scraped from there and what for?

SomeoneCares · 2012-09-13 21:08

@hadynz thanks for stopping by my request Smile

well what I am looking for is simply that I have few hundreds of Arabic movies stored on my hard drive in addition to thousands of English movies, I want to be able to find my Arabic movies under XBMC movies section with all movie information, cast, trailer, posters and so on, which are all available at the mentioned site
thanks

hadynz · 2012-09-15 01:49

Yup got it... and this is not easy task considering the naming standards of ripped Arabic movies.

Might have to give this request a pass for the time being Smile

SomeoneCares · 2012-09-15 03:09

what if u consider the folder name instead of the file name, so the folder name should be in Arabic exactly as the movie name ?

SomeoneCares Junior Member Posts: 33 Joined: Jun 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-09-01 00:13 Post: #1 hello all, I am looking for a scraper that can get metadata from http://www.elcinema.com/ I wish if I have enough development background to build it I would have built it long time ago .. unfortunately I do not have it can someone help me in this? there is no single scraper that serves Arabic media thanks in advance
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SomeoneCares Junior Member Posts: 33 Joined: Jun 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-09-04 00:50 Post: #2 am I posting to the wrong forum section ? should I move the request to other place ?
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olympia Team-XBMC Member Posts: 2,381 Joined: May 2008 Reputation: 30	2012-09-04 14:58 Post: #3 No, it's ok to be here. Seems like noone is interested and/or have the time to develop a scraper for this site. ASUS P5N7A-VM - Intel C2D E7300 - 2GB RAM - Silverstone GD02 Black - MS MCE Remote - Patriot Warp 32GB SSD Drive
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SomeoneCares Junior Member Posts: 33 Joined: Jun 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-09-04 21:24 Post: #4 thanx for ur reply
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bhefny Junior Member Posts: 1 Joined: Sep 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-09-08 00:12 Post: #5 There is no scpecific tool to crap a website in particular I think a custom scrapper should be written What exactly do you want to scrap ?
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hadynz Member Posts: 61 Joined: Sep 2012 Reputation: 5 Location: Auckland, New Zealand	2012-09-13 12:22 Post: #7 @SomeoneCares; I am currently the author of the Arabic XBMC repository (https://github.com/hadynz/repository.ara...mc-addons) and am able to write scrapers with ease. I saw your thread and had a look at elcinema.com. Like you just said, they don't really have any media... just meta data. Not sure what you would like scraped from there and what for?
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hadynz Member Posts: 61 Joined: Sep 2012 Reputation: 5 Location: Auckland, New Zealand	2012-09-15 01:49 Post: #9 Yup got it... and this is not easy task considering the naming standards of ripped Arabic movies. Might have to give this request a pass for the time being
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SomeoneCares Junior Member Posts: 33 Joined: Jun 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-09-15 03:09 Post: #10 what if u consider the folder name instead of the file name, so the folder name should be in Arabic exactly as the movie name ?
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